Imitation stove.



K C. SMITH.

IMITATION STOVE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30. L915.

Patented J uly 2, 1918.

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r n sienna KENNETH CLAIRE SMITH, 0F BEAVER DAM, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOB TO MALLEABLE MUN NGE COMPANY, OF BEAVER DAM, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF 71%- IMITATION STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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application filed December 30, 1915. Serial No. 69,349.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, KENNETH CLAIRE SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beaver Dam, county of Dodge, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Imitation Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in imitation stoves.

The object of my invention is to provide an advertising carton, composed of paste board or other suitable material, which may be distributed flat and later folded to a conformity with the general contour of a range or stove, including base, warming closet, pouch feed and reservoir (the several members having those surfaces which are exterior in the assembled carton, printed to represent the various details of a stoves appearance) Without cutting, gluing or other manipulation aside from folding with the hands and which when so folded forms a coin tight receptacle which cannot be opened without destroying it.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved imitation stove.v Y

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is a plan view.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank from which the imitation stove is formed.

Fig. 5 is a side view of the same as it is Fig. 6 is a side elevation, partly invertical section showing thevarlous members of the stove partially assembled and with some of the flaps reversely bent to expose their inner faces.

Like parts are identified by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

In the construction of my imitation stove. I first prepare a blank havin a lineal series of flem'bly connected mem ers 1, 2, 3, 4.

5, 6, 7,8, 9, and 10 respectively. I prefer- I ably form the structure from cardboard. and

therefore the several members may be conveniently formed integrallyvvith crease lines a at the meeting margins of the members,

to facilitate assembling the members in gins thereof. One of these extensionscom' prises a laterally extending lineal sense of dotted lines in Fismembers 12, 13 and 1 1. The member 12 is integrally connected with the member 2, but a slot or slit 1) partially severs the same therefrom. The lateral extension of the her 2 and partially severed therefrom by a slit or slot 5'.

The member 3 has a lateral extension 20, which is preferably connected integrally with its side margin and is also in flexible joint connection with the end margin of the member 12 at a The member 1 is provided with lateral extensions 22 and 23 from its margins in flexible joint connection therewith at a. These members 22 and 23 are provided with flexibly jointed wings 25 ex tending parallel with the main strip or series of strips 1 to 10 inclusive.

The member 5 is provided with laterally extending members 27 and 28 which project on opposite sides of the member 5 from its outer end portion.

The various members above described are also provided with suitable interlocking ears or connecting clips 30, 31, 32, 33, 3e, and 35, the purpose of which will be hereinafter more fully explained. The surface of the member 1 is preferably formed or figured to represent the high closet back, together with a smoke pipe and damper d. The surface of the member 2 is formed or figured to represent the top of a stove, including a set of griddles e. The surface of the member 3 is formed or figured to represent the front of a stove, including. a door f for the. main oven, a door 7 for the lower warming closet, and other doors f and f etc. for access to fuel feed and ash pit chambers The memoven to be supported above the raisedbac plate formed by the member-1 when the parts are assembled.

The blank illustrated in Fig. 4: is folded along the line a to bring the members 1 2 and 3 against the opposite side ofthe mem bers 4: and 5 from that shown in Fig. 4, the

member 1 lapping upon the member 5 be proper position. ljhe member 2 is provided with lateral extensions from both side martween the members 27and 28. The members 1 and 5 are then gummed together, as shown at h in Fig. 5, and in thezone indicatedby e the Parts are thus assembled as shown in Fig. v5, they may be packaged and shipped to "destination.

The carton may then be folded in'toits resemblance to a stove by "first folding members 6, =7, 8, 9 and 10 n omflie-reveme side of member 5 from that shown in Fig. 4:. The member 6 will be retained in a fiat dosi'tio'n against the member 5, the members and 9 will 'be swung outwardly to a horizontal position With the member 8 occupying a vertical position offset by the members 7 and 9 from the member 5; The member 10 will be tuckedin between the member -5and that portion of the member 1 above the space Where it is gummed to the member 5. This forms-a rectai'igular receptacle representing a warming oven, supported abovethe top, 2 of the stove by themembers5 and 1. The ends-of-the rectangular chamber or Warming closet may be closed by the Wings '35, covered in turn by the members 2 7 and 28 respectively. The wings or flaps 34 maybe pushed inwardly between-the member 8'-and the edges of the wings .35, thereby looking themem'b'ers 27 and 28 in positions at right angles 'tothe back member 5.

Then by pulling outwardly upon the member 3, -111BI11lQ'6IS 2 and l may be swung on their respective connections with the anembers 1 and 5,respectively, to horizontal ;positions as shown in Fig. 6. As the range top member 2 rises to a horizontal-posiftion the projectionsj on themembers -27 and ;28

V will enter the slits band b which partially sever the top member 2 from the members 12 and 1; respectively. The inembe'rjs 22 and 23 will then'be folded inwardly. The wings 25 being :passed into the rectangular spacejbetween the-members? and 5 and the flaps 32 under the tOp"I11e Il'1b6I-2. Asthe members 2-2 and 23 -reaclr'-nearly a vertical positionthe locking lips 33 are to be bent inward (but not creased) so that they may ,pass under the projections i of the members :27 and 28 and when they have completely ,passed said projectionsthey will spring up behind such projections i thereby locking the coin receptacle or base e f-the range -so that it cannot be-opened without partially or wholly Edestroying it. I

7 1T ow'the members B and 14 may be {fold- ;ed inwardlyjto form a rectangular cavity 7 back of the I member 20., the interlocking lip 30 is .rpassed "througha suitable slit 3O cut in the wing, 22, similarly -the members 15 and 16 are, folded to form the pouch feed,

2 p mbe b ing a projection from the topmember 2-andthe member :16 assuming diagonal or Ipreferably a curved iposi- 111 au i 12s l cking -l-i%p 18.0 and "engaging a slide -8 0 in themember 23, said latter imembar now constituting the left side of the stove. The memberidhaving'acurved'outer ana -gin and which is flexibly coniiected W-ith the =rnember 15 maybe w-folded downwardly to close the front end of the space underneath the top of the pouch feed member 15, -a I'Idthe locking member 31 may be tucked inwardly between the edge of this member andthe lnel'iiber 16 would occu y the diagonal or curved position and support the pouch feed top member 15 as above described.

Theineinber 23 is provided with a slot 12 which occupies a horizontal position when the parts are assembled in the form of a complete range. Two .vertical slots 43 and 44 are located at the respective ends of the horizontal SlOtl-Q. This forms an opening that facilitates the use of the imitation stove as a coin receptacle, the coins being pushed connected With the bottom member of the stove'and adapted to fold upwardly therefrom to form the sides thereof, and a set of interlocking flaps adapted to hold the mem bers together when assembled to the form of a stove.

2. An imitation stove comprising a strip of material {having one face formed to represent in'a lineal series of flexibly joined members, the back, bottom, front and top of a stove, in combination with end members of said lineal series adapted to form a raised warming oven supported from the back of the stove aboie the top thereof, laterally extending members flexibly connectedwith the bottom member and adapted to fold upwardly to for-m the sides of the stove and other laterally extending members connected with the raised portion of the back member and adapted to be *folded at right angles to the back member and close the ends of the warming oven, the top of the stove being also provided with slits adapted to engage the lower margins of said last mentioned laterally extending mei'nbers when the lat- .terare bentor foldedat-ri-ght angles to the thereof, said members being figured to repre'sent'the respective walls Qf t'he stove, and :means 'for'lo'ckmg the member 1 in assembled :position.

41.1411 imitation stove formed integrally reverses from a single piece of cardboard, sub-divided by crease lines into a lineal series of members forming the upper warming oven, the back, bottom, front, and top of a stove, and laterally extending flaps adapted, when folded, to connect the top and bottom members, all of said members being figured to represent the respective walls of the stove, and means for locking the members in assembled position, said locking means comprising interlocking flaps engaging between the edges of the wall members.

Y 5. An imitation stove formed from a single blank or piece of cardboard, suitably cut, creased and bent to constitute back, bottom, front, top and side members of a stove, to gether with a warmino oven, reservoir and pouch feed attached thereto and similarly formed of cardboard members integrally connected with the others.

6. An imitation stove comprising the combination of a lineal series of integrally connected, flexibly joined cardboard members, composing the back, bottom, front and top of the stove, said back member being extended above the top and said top member also having an extension gummed to the upwardly projecting portion of the back member and figured to represent a stove pipe.

7. An imitation stove comprising the combination of a lineal series of integrally connected flexibly joined cardboard members, composing the back, bottom, front and top of the stove, said back member being extended above the top and said top member also having an extension gummed to the upwardly pro ecting portion of the back member and figured to represent a stove pipe, together with an auxiliary set of members connected with the back member and adapted, when folded, to form a warming oven, the terminal member of said auxiliary set being engaged between the upper margin of the gummed top extension and said back member, substantially as described.

8. An imitation stove formed integrally from a single piece of cardboard, subdivided by crease lines into members forming the upper warming oven, the back, bottom, front, and top Walls of a stove, and provided with a coin receiving slot, laterally extending flaps adapted, when folded, to connect the top and bottom members, and means for looking all the members in assembled position, said locking means being adapted to prevent access to the coins without destroying the stove.

9. A structural blank composed of an elongated strip provided with two sets of laterally extending flaps, said strip and the flaps having crease lines and formed to be folded on said crease lines to construct two spaced connected receptacles.

In testimony whereof ll ailix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

KENNETH CLAIRE SMI'l.

Witnesses.

JEANETTE SHERMAN, ELDON M. WHITMORE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each,'by addressing the Commissioner of Watents, Washington, D. t." 

